Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Oscar's Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer I, Infrastructure! Lead the design of Oscar's next-generation infrastructure platform, focusing on scalability and reliability. You'll write efficient code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with partners. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and expertise in various technologies. The position offers a competitive salary ($158,400 - $207,900), unlimited vacation, equity grants, annual bonuses, and a blended work culture with remote options. You must reside in one of the specified states. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a company revolutionizing healthcare.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
• Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating, whether it be a new shiny technology or an arcane, ill-conceived data structure; our company may be new, but the health industry isn’t!
• Experience with technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems
• Demonstrates solid understanding of the practical application of CS concepts within their team
• Consistently writes stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight; writes modular, adaptable code with guidance

Responsibilities

• Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains
• Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects
• Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems
• Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices
• Implement step-wise technical migrations of our existing services and applications
• Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion with little required guidance
• Independent contributor to their team. Work effectively across the codebase with appropriate guidance from code owners
• Make steady, well-paced progress without requiring frequent significant feedback from more senior engineers
• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang
• Experience owning observability stack tooling, e.g. Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes
• Experience working in data and engineering tooling, e.g. discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, authorization libraries

Benefits

• Employee benefits
• Participation in Oscar’s unlimited vacation program
• Company equity grants
• Annual performance bonuses
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick time
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) plan participation
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid wellness time and reimbursements